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Re:Congress votes to make open government data the default i... by Rexxar on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:30AM (#18746592)
Scanned pdf of a spreadsheet is clearly machine-readable, as you can read this document with your computer.
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Re:Congress votes to make open government data the default i... by canibal57 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:56PM (#18748595)
I'm pretty sure that isn't what machine-readable means, especially in this context. But this kind of obtuse reading seems like it would be exactly how the concern of the parent comment would come into being.
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Re:Congress votes to make open government data the default i... by ekianjo on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:10PM (#18750019)
If you have this kind of standard then literally everything is machine-readable, even handwriting with proper machine learning models. That's quite clearly not the spirit of the wording.
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